BIG news to the Blender community!!!

#1

Hi!
I just got some info from a friend in one of the major 3D studios (game content creation) and they are planing to switch to blender from 3Ds max COMPLETELY in the next few months!
The transition has begun!

This is good news to Blender community, because until now, only small studios used blender. This adoption of blender by a major studio, proves that indeed, it has some serious power.
They said that its open source nature and features and extreme rate of growth recently has led to the decision. Not the free cost. And that, is even better news.

I can see that more and more studios see the power of Blender, and finally start to adopt it. They also said, that they are planning to devote some developer time for blender bug fixing, and donations to the foundation for further development.

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to specify the name of the studio, but it is one of the well known one for-sure.

You will find this out yourself in several months, beginning of 2012 at the latest. This is big. You should consider checking out Blender. The new UI is great and features are being added like crazy.

#2

Oh.

more words

#3

“Oh”

Isn’t this exciting?
I mean, it is a major milestone for Blender!

If one studio is switching, it means it is production ready and powerful enough. It is open, so it is more attractive to the company, as it can use it as a frame to build its own version of it.

I think soon we will see more of such happenings!
:slight_smile:

#4

I’m curious how you heard about this if you can’t tell us the name of the studio?

I’m not saying I don’t believe you, but without that name it’s not very big news. Share the name :slight_smile:

#5

Well, Blender is quite powerful and very clean and organized since 2.5, so it´s not really that far-fetched.

And Unity seems to work very well with Blender files.

#6

redbyte, you are asking me how I heard about this. Read my OP post again please. I clearly said that a friend told me this who works there. Simple.

I WOULD share the name instantly. I would LOVE to. But the guy (friend) said to not mention it, because they (studio) don’t want anyone speaking or knowing about them going to use blender at this point in time. Why? I have no damn idea. I don’t know much about policies and what so not… all I know is that I trust that guy. He would not have any reason to lie.

Anyways, I am not saying you should trust me. Of course, I am just new to blender and this community, so there is no way you could trust me because most of you don’t know me.
But I am stating what I heard from a good friend.

#7

He did mention something about custom code. Something along the lines of exporters? I can’t remember exactly. So maybe they will make their own custom blender with extra features that will allow them to do more stuff. I don’t know.

Oh, and no, that company does not use Unity, they use some other engines.

#8

I´m also trying to get into Blender, so I´ve been doing some research and was very surprised how powerful Blender´s internal game-engine seems to be.

Perfectly suitable for interactive architectural previs and even final games from what I´ve seen so far.

#9

I believe it. A colleague is working with it right now. I’ve seen blender shorts. It’s hard to believe more people haven’t heard/learned with it.

You can do almost anything with it you can with any of the other big wigs.

#10

I’m not surprised. It was really just a matter of time.

#11

i guess we will have to wait till next year to see what studio it is. i’m not really surprised because blender is a powerful app

#12

If/When it happens, it will indeed be “BIG News”.

Until the studio comes out of the shadows, however, it is just “BIG RUMOR”.

#13

No, it isn’t exciting. It also wasn’t suitable for posting in General Discussions - please don’t post threads like this there again. If you have Blender news, rather just post it directly here in the Blender forum. The same goes for any other app that we have a dedicated forum for.

This isn’t news, nor is it a milestone for anything. You’re an anonymous person posting that you “heard” from a “friend” in a “major studio” that they’re starting to use a piece of software. Honestly, who cares? Apart from the fact that this is simply hearsay, why do you care about what a studio you’re not even working at is using?

People who treat software like it’s some kind of religion always make me scratch my head.

#14

Although I admit hearsays is not to be called news, it’s a nice push, and since it’s a community developped app that clearly packs its punch it is considered like a religion.

Here’s a series of short animations that I know are done in blender (including post http://blog.autourdeminuit.com/coming-soon/babioles/)

#15

Yes, it is exciting…even if flickr doesn’t agree…rumor or not…good for Blender. And I am a user of 3ds max since version 1. Am now learning Blender.

#16

Agreed. Thanks to the OP - good to know!

#17

I really agree with this. I am a blender user myself though but the religion fanatic thing is just too much, must say I fell for it myself when I started to use blender, in the end it is just a software and a tool for creating ones vision.

#18

I guess I am just too old to get too excited about anything…but I never want to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm…for it is that sole ingredient which often times carries a person over obstacles that stop others whose passion is not strong enough to cope with too many barriers.

I am 63. I know I am not the oldest 3D’er around…but one does change through age.

And I meant no slight to flickr…whose avatar icon I have always admired over the years here on the Talk along with many of his very helpful comments.

#19

Seems strange considering Blender 2.5x is lacking heavily in modelling tools.

It won’t be until 2.63/4/5… or even later that Bmesh will be integrated along with a solid modelling tool-set.

If a studio is making use of Blender it’s a good thing for those people who make use of it and intend to follow it as a career, I can understand people getting excited because of this fact.

Perhaps your friend meant it was being used as part of the pipeline. It’s UV mapping tools are excellent, that’s a good reason to use it in a pipeline for game production.

#20

I find this interesting, though I’m not a Blender user. I’ll probably spend some time with it once bSurfaces gets to a certain point in its development. The thing that has me scratching my head is what this means for the future. The expensive programs are only updated about once per year, while the inexpensive/free ones seem to be updated continually. Combine that with meeting a studios requirements, and you begin to wonder whether some of those premium apps will start finding it hard to survive, at least at their current price points anyways. Hopefully it’ll be a win win situation for the artist whatever comes to pass.